{"id":777112,"date":"2026-07-22T03:46:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777112\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T03:46:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T03:46:10","slug":"liverpool-transfer-news-andoni-iraola-wants-alexis-mac-allister-and-alisson-to-stay-at-anfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/777112\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool transfer news: Andoni Iraola wants Alexis Mac Allister and Alisson to stay at Anfield"},"content":{"rendered":"

Liverpool<\/a> boss Andoni Iraola wants midfielder Alexis Mac Allister and goalkeeper Alisson to remain at the club.<\/p>\n

Argentina international Mac Allister has two years left on the five-year contract he signed at Liverpool<\/a> when he joined the Reds in 2023. <\/p>\n

The 27-year-old has yet to begin talks over a new deal, which has prompted speculation he could leave Anfield this summer.<\/p>\n

However, Iraola told a news conference in Chicago at the beginning of Liverpool<\/a>‘s pre-season tour of the United States that he wants to hang on to the player. <\/p>\n

“I think Alexis has been one of the best players at the club for the last few years, and he has had a very good World Cup, so it is normal that other clubs want our best players,” Iraola said.<\/p>\n

“It always happens in other markets. But I want to keep my good players. I’m looking forward more to signing new players rather than losing the ones we have here.”<\/p>\n

Alisson has a year left on his contract at Anfield and has been linked with a move to Juventus, but Iraola is keen to bank on the 33-year-old Brazilian’s experience in the forthcoming season.<\/p>\n

“I’m very happy with the situation we have right now in the goalkeeping area,” explained the Reds boss.<\/p>\n

“Alisson is someone also in a changing room that has lost some references in terms of experience, I think he’s someone that definitely will help us in this process of adaptation of the new signings, of the new players, the young players. <\/p>\n

“We need the references like Virgil [van Dijk], like Alisson, like Joe Gomez, players that have been here for a long time.”<\/p>\n

Iraola acknowledged he has one eye on bringing in defensive reinforcements during the summer transfer window, particularly at right-back given Conor Bradley is “months” away from playing.<\/p>\n

The Northern Ireland international sustained a knee injury<\/a> in January and will not be available for the start of the season.<\/p>\n

“At the end, if you have a fully fit, healthy Conor Bradley, we are very happy, ready to go and we would not be asking ourselves these questions,” explained the Spaniard.<\/p>\n

“I think it’s a situation that is tricky, because we trust Conor in the long term, we know we want him to be our right-back but right now he is still, I would say, a little bit far from returning. <\/p>\n

“So, with the centre-back, with the right-back situation, in terms of defensive depth, we are, I think, very thin right now so I think it’s a solution that we are trying to find, yes.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Liverpool boss Andoni Iraola wants midfielder Alexis Mac Allister and goalkeeper Alisson to remain at the club. Argentina…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":777113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-777112","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=777112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/777112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/777113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=777112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=777112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=777112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}